WHITTIER – A 30-year-old Whittier man was shot multiple times in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon in the 7700 block of Washington Avenue, police said. Five suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Police did not release their names Tuesday.

Officers and paramedics responded to the area south of Walnut at about 1:10 p.m. and found a man lying on a lawn, bleeding from his upper body, Whittier police Officer Mike Dekowski said.

“The victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso,” Dekowski said. “He was shot somewhere in the alley between Bright and Washington.”

According to Dekowski and a witness, the victim ran across the road and collapsed in the front yard of a home at 7750 Washington Ave.

“He just came running from that place over there,” said 40-year-old Sandra Hernandez as she pointed across the street from where the victim was found. “(He) said `Call 9-1-1, I’m being shot.”‘ Hernandez added that the victim appeared to be bleeding from his stomach.

Once on the scene, Los Angeles County paramedics removed the victim’s clothing except for his boxer shorts. The man was conscious when placed on a gurney and rolled into a waiting ambulance. According to Dekowski, the man was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood.

“He is somewhat uncooperative right now. We’re not getting much from him as far as a suspect,” Dekowski said. He declined to say if the shooting was gang related.

Several officers, both uniformed and in plain clothes, responded to the scene and quickly set up yellow tape covering a stretch of the block five houses in length. At one point, multiple officers with guns drawn entered a house across the street from where the victim was found.

Uniformed officers went up and down the block knocking on doors and canvassing the neighborhood for information. Meanwhile, members of the department’s ID Bureau examined the area where the victim was found. After several minutes, they collected the victim’s clothing and placed it in paper evidence bags.

Neither the names of those taken into custody or the the charges they face have been released.

Dekowski said the unnamed victim’s wounds are not considered to be life-threatening.